RHEL 7 - Gnome - Window focus
Hello,
These window Focus Mode settings are available in Tweaks:
Click
Mouse
Sloppy
1) Click : click on title bar to activate a window
2) Mouse, Sloppy (I could not tell the difference): window becomes active when mouse hovers over a window
existing Click mode is inconvenient when windows overlap each other
Mouse, Sloppy modes often lead to text being typed in a wrong window. This causes unexpected text to appear in wrong parts of code, passwords typed in wrong places - expensive mistakes.
is this possible to add another Focus Mode:
*) Click anywhere in a window to activate that window
this mode is used in Windows, it is very natural, never causes any issues
?
Responses
First, the difference between Mouse and Sloppy: In mouse, the window currently under the pointer has focus. This means that if the mouse moves from a window to the background, the window no longer has focus (but the background does). In Sloppy mode, when the pointer goes over a window, that window gets focus -- so if the pointer moves from the window to the background, the window will continue to have focus.
On my system, when I set Focus Mode to "Click", I can click anywhere in the window to give focus to that window, but it also sends the click through to whatever element was there. So, if it is some area of the window that doesn't accept clicks, the entire window gets focus, if it is a button, the button gets pressed, if it is a text box, the text box handles it as if you clicked at that point.
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